My thoughts about the problems of the IETF

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand]

--On fredag, mai 02, 2003 09:18:40 -0400 Eric Rosen <erosen at cisco.com> 
wrote:

>
> Keith> I've seen  far too many  WGs completely (and  sometimes
> deliberately) Keith> fail to understand the wider implications of their
> proposals
>
> I think  cases like  this are  not so much  due to  a deliberate  failure
> to understand,  as  to  a  difference  of opinion  about  applicability,
> or  a difference of  opinion about the  importance of these  "wider
> implications". The inability of the IESG to recognize that there is a
> legitimate difference of opinion  about the importance of  certain "wider
> implications"  is one of our biggest problems.

I think you grossly underestimate the variability of IESG members...

how can we overlook the fact of legitimate differences of opinion when we 
have them among ourselves all the time??????????

           Harald